{"id":3734,"date":"2015-12-29T14:33:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T20:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/?p=3734"},"modified":"2015-12-29T14:51:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T20:51:26","slug":"rip-lemmy-kilmister-the-godfather-of-heavy-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/?p=3734","title":{"rendered":"RIP Lemmy Kilmister the &#8220;Godfather of Heavy Metal&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-con\">\n<p>The band\u2019s management confirmed Lemmy\u2019s death via a post on the band\u2019s official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/officialmotorhead?_rdr=p\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-con\">\n<p><em>There is no easy way to say this\u2026our mighty, noble friend Lemmy passed away today after a short battle with an extremely aggressive cancer. He had learnt of the disease on December 26th, and was at home, sitting in front of his favorite video game from The Rainbow which had recently made it\u2019s way down the street, with his family.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-con\">\n<p><em>We cannot begin to express our shock and sadness, there aren\u2019t words.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-con\">\n<p><em>We will say more in the coming days, but for now, please\u2026play Mot\u00f6rhead loud,<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"> play Hawkwind loud, play Lemmy\u2019s music LOUD.<br \/>\nHave a drink or few.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<div class=\"article-con\">\n<p><em>Share stories.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-con\">\n<p><em>Celebrate the LIFE this lovely, wonderful man celebrated so vibrantly himself.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-con\">\n<p><em>HE WOULD WANT EXACTLY THAT.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-con\">\n<p><em>Ian \u2018Lemmy\u2019 Kilmister<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-con\">\n<p><em>1945 -2015<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-con\">\n<p><em>Born to lose, lived to win.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"spotlight\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fash1-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xtp1\/v\/t1.0-9\/12410563_751887701611051_6763850331629556965_n.jpg?oh=30958ab67d310e70c16275d1fc0c0186&amp;oe=57031F88\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"spotlight\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fash1-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xal1\/v\/t1.0-9\/1937149_962481063845334_3373516676292060507_n.jpg?oh=0c4a2187a05f0cc74cf426112c2a8916&amp;oe=5703A229\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The band\u2019s management confirmed Lemmy\u2019s death via a post on the band\u2019s official Facebook page. There is no easy way to say this\u2026our mighty, noble friend Lemmy passed away today after a short battle with an extremely aggressive cancer. He had learnt of the disease on December 26th, and was at home, sitting in front [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3737,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions\/3737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}